Silk Road 2017

Today we have about 300 kilometres to drive to our hotel at Guanling, via some waterfalls. The area we are driving through is a beautiful […]

This morning we rose early to walk up to a viewing platform to see the sunrise at about 6:30, however there is fog everywhere and […]

Today we have a 320 km drive from Puer to Yuanyang which will be a long days drive as the final 120 km are on […]

This morning we had about an 80 km drive that took us 1.5 hours due to all the road works on the main road we […]

Today we only have 37 km to drive to the China border at Boten over a very potholed road.  We pass an overturned truck that […]

Today we have approximately 310 km to drive to Luang Namtha which is near Boten on the China border. As we leave Luang Probang we […]

This morning we have a half day elephant experience at an elephant sanctuary where they care for sick elephants that have been mistreated or made to […]

Today we have a 390 km drive to Luang Prabang.  Driving out of Vientiane is very slow as the city just seemed to keep going […]

This morning we had a tour of Vientiane, which is the capital of Laos with a population of approximately 800,000 people. Laos was once a […]

Today we have a 335 km drive to Vientiane & fortunately it’s not as humid as it was yesterday so it feels quite a bit cooler. […]